Gordon Gordon, send more house to save the house.
Hello everyone and welcome to Lores Cricket Club house Cast.
We're getting into autumn as we speak.
The leaves are falling, the nights are going longer and
that's it, shorter. And we decided to do a bit of a
podcast just as a catch up. Nothing special with no guests
on. A couple of draws I think to do
but but why not? Hopefully people like it.
I've mentioned it to a couple of of our lower house friends in
the last two couple of weeks and they're desperate for us to do
some more. So so we'll carry on.
So without further ado, Joe Martin.
How's it going Joe, after the season?
Excellent. Jazz.
Yeah. It's OK.
Yeah, not too bad. It's been very busy.
Been very busy. We've been playing paddle.
You are? Yeah.
At work or? Everything really, you know,
work, paddle, you know outside, you know cricket, hectic social
life. Yeah.
Vibrant paddle. Calendar referred to paddle a
couple of times there. Do you know what paddle is?
I do, yeah. Yeah, OK.
Yeah, I was going to. I've never played it.
Have you played it, Duke? No, they keep.
No, I sure would be good at it. I don't want to.
I don't want to play. He's a pickleballer.
Can I like would you? Sport as well.
Joe Martin, would you just check me for one game?
I know I'm watching anything. He.
Didn't seem very enthusiastic. Yes, let's go.
Brilliant. Anyway, we'll come back to
paddle because I do have some questions about it.
Gooch. Thanks very.
Much for agreeing to join us in this towards the end of October
episode. How's it going after the season
of You? You're chilled out and your
stress levels come down. Yeah, yeah, it's all good.
Enjoy the end of the season. By the time, I think I've said
this a few times, but by the time I get to end the season I'm
ready for a break. So yeah, they've still seen
plenty of most of the lads playing a bit of golf with a few
of them. Oh, that's good.
See Joe quite a bit. Chat to Joe quite a bit.
Brilliant, Brilliant. The It's getting quite a group
of law. I can't think of a collective
name for cricketers, so I'll say a group of law creamers.
Creamers. Yeah, a spread of cream as
playing golf up Nelson now in and I was with Pete SIM about 3
weeks ago. I had a game up there with him
and he was saying there's, there's glorious everywhere.
Yeah, and he, I spoke to him after you played and, and he was
remarkably impressed with how how well you played.
He was a dog. I'm not being facetious at all,
he said. The other who?
Who else did you play with? Dave Endle.
Yeah, he said. He was terrible, he said.
But you, but you. But you were.
You were decent. Steve Cooney with the other one.
Well, he plays Thor Chester, doesn't he?
Yes, Stephen Simmet playoff I think 14 Dave Indle doesn't play
a great deal and I think his son in law's he's he's ex captain up
at Nelson as he Joe. Who?
Who's his son-in-law? I can't remember his name now,
so that's a wasted story into but he he's only a youngish lad.
He played, you know, he was he was off minus whatever or plus
whatever. And Dave wants to take it up,
but I'm not sure. I think what will happen.
I don't know if Simmie ever listens to this, but what
happened when we were playing? It's Charlie Ellis.
It's Charlie Ellis into his son-in-law.
That's it, yeah. He's not an ex captive.
Oh, is he not all right? He's he's one of the better
players, he's one of the best players in the club, but he's
not there. He's not.
He's never been captain. No, I I got it wrong.
And I didn't mean to say captain, I meant to say pro.
But Pro was yeah, yeah, he was. Yeah, that's what I meant to
say. So anyway, so we, we've gone up
there, it's absolutely tipping it down.
But fair play to semi. He organised it all and we had,
you know, all the right gear and I, I it's just hand eye
coordination into it. So one in three or maybe one in
five I would certainly off the tee.
But what really got the semi fed up was when I did it it
straight, it went like 50 metres further than this and he.
Plays every week. Yeah, and he was always dead,
straight to minor, going off at all sorts of tangents, and the
odd one I hit were going further.
He couldn't get his head around it, but he still went round in
probably 10 or 15 less than me, but a good afternoon.
It's great up there. Joined.
It was nice course. Had a pint after, but it was,
yeah, a good crack. Is it?
Worth saying just because we this is a lore house podcast,
should we just tell everybody who Pete's him is?
Who's uncle? He's Jess.
Yeah, yeah, Jack and Danny. Jack and Danny, correct?
Yeah. Yeah, Jack and Danny's uncle.
I joined the police recently. That's how we we saw so
friendly. And then obviously Steve comes
down a lot and and he had Jack and Danny.
I knew Simi's dad as well. He a lovely fellow, worked at
Paddy and Nick. So anyway, so that's who they
are. We're waffling on a lot here,
aren't we? Lovely chatting.
Let's go back to the Nelson Golf Club because I think blessed
players up there a lot I've done to Matt.
Does Matt yourself. So do you ever all play
together? Is it that?
Yeah, yeah, you can do. Yeah.
There's quite a lot of cricket is from other clubs as well and
who play there, yeah. And that's why Chess was there,
wanted to record. Some podcast guests from other
clubs. Yeah.
Andy Payne, Andy McLeod, David Brown, Nick Moulding, right,
Yeah, quite a few, quite a few. I probably miss somebody really
obvious, but Nick Anderson, obviously he's he's an ex
captain. This is really boring chat this
we have to move on pretty quick from golf because nobody.
'S interested. Let's move on.
Do you have like between you all?
Certainly the low races, when you're playing together, do you
get together with like a WhatsApp group as to what you're
going to wear, No. No, that's never happened.
You know when you're going up to to play the game because you do,
you do quite, you dress quite strange, don't you golfers?
I've noticed. I mean, it's rich coming from us
that wear a pair of whites every weekend.
Jazz. I know, but they actually what
to wear. No, we've never.
I've never done that anyway. No.
But Dutch is a snappy dresser, so yeah, he.
Is. You know.
So the So the season's finished anything, I mean on an official
side Duch, anything to report around the players, everyone all
right? There's no injuries, long term
injuries that have come to the fore now they're all rested out
and anything. To No, there's nothing actually.
We've had a couple of discussions about cricket since
the season finished, but there's there's not much happening
really. Obviously Tom Walker's gone to
Australia, which happened before the season finished and I think
we probably discussed it last time.
Yeah. We don't know if certainly if
that book is closed, but we'll, we, we just waiting really or,
or just keep in touch with him just to see if the if there is
any possibility of him coming back.
But but not really anything to say on that at the moment.
No, I'm not. I suppose, you know, I I'm going
to put my little walk head on now.
It doesn't matter. He's such a great lad.
If he enjoys his life over there and he gets a Cricket Club and
plays good cricket and yeah, good time, then great.
And if he doesn't and he want to come back, then, then we'll
benefit. I think for planning purposes, I
think we've got to assume that he's not.
Yeah, yeah. And.
Like hope that you know, if he can, if he does want to, then
then that option's there, isn't it?
So because he had a great season, played really well.
And he just seemed to be improving, didn't he, as he, as
he got older, stronger and bigger.
So that's great, Duchen, for the listeners.
We will be doing this. We won't be doing it every
month, I don't think, but we will.
We're looking at getting some guests on this One X Pro that
we've had. It will leave us a bit of
surprise that we've made contact with.
And he's quite keen to come on. He'll be fantastic and get him
on. And we will talk as we get
towards the the new year and it's the new new year with
regard to any changes or or training and everything else.
But I think it's important to mention now around the socials
down at the club. Do you get down there Dutch when
they have the socials on? I've been to a couple but I
haven't. I'm usually playing golf on a
Sunday so I tend not to bother. But I've been to a couple but
not not a lot. I mean, it's a great that you
know, for Sam who's taking it on and she's doing a great job and
Gracie who's helping out with the quizzes and the football
games that are on there, you know, going down to watch that.
So any anyone who's interested, have a look on the the website
or on Twitter or message of any of us or the committee.
If you want to know when they're on, get yourself down, have a
couple of pints through the winter.
It'll help it go through through quickly.
Joe Martin, what? What's yourself, what, what are
you going to be like through the winter with regard to your
training regime and keeping yourself on track?
So I still run every day, every morning and yeah, go every
morning. And as I don't know how well
documented it is, I guess, but the last season was one of the
most enjoyable that I've had for quite a few years.
Oh, right, since Dutch played, I guess.
And so I don't know, the atmosphere was really great last
year. So it's actually kind of spurred
me on a little bit to do some more cricket specific stuff
before Christmas and then and then after Christmas as well,
which I've never ever done. I've done that for quite a few
years. So we'll do a little bit we're
starting up with the juniors as well before Christmas.
So we've got the APP programme that's starting in November.
So they're with the players that we think are at the minute have
really good chances of playing first team cricket in future
years. They're not, you know, the, the,
you know, young, young players, they're 12/13/14.
But they've got a lot of potential.
So if we can, if we can support them to get to that point, then
that's a really good thing. And the earlier we do it, I
think the the better it'd be. So that starts soon and we've
got the kind of junior when the junior training starting before
Christmas as well. So there's lots of lots of
cricket that's going on too. That's going to take up some
time. I don't mean take up some time
that's there. So it's good.
Is there any scope for people who are listening to this to get
the juniors to come down? You know, is there a contact
that they can do that or do they need to do that in the summer
and then get established? What do you mean?
If someone's listening and it's got a 7 year old who's all.
Right. Yeah, sorry.
Come to do some Nets. I'm sorry I didn't tell you in
dual marketing language. And what you meant, Jess?
Yeah, I thought so. Yeah, sorry, Yeah.
So if they if they contact Stan or the the club, there's various
ways that you can contact the club just, you know, through a
normal Internet search or on the club website, depending on
depending on their age, there's some things before Christmas
that they might be able to attend.
They tend to be the the younger end.
So they do the kind of fundamental skills if they're,
if they're ready. So I'd say probably 9 and 9 and
younger. And then if they're a little bit
older, there's the the winter programme that starts in
February, again, contact the club, say, and and then they can
make a kind of judgement on on that and the best route forward
as well. So quite a few opportunities if
people are interested in playing and and also if anybody wants to
make a comeback. Right, OK.
Door is always open. Douche no.
No, no, douche doesn't want to play.
Or just in general, you know, like last year for example,
Pinky came back and played and did a fantastic job with the
fourth team. And you know, I spent quite a
lot of time with Pinky last last year, which was fantastic.
You know, listen to some of the old stories, but also again, his
perspective on what the new things that happened.
So if players that haven't played for a while and are
interested in in playing again, you know, they see how well the
clubs run then then the doors open as well.
If if if there's spots below I guess.
Brilliant. I mean that's a really good idea
Joe, but I've got to to bring it back down to man and Dutch's
level. Let's let's have a think.
Who would be your favourite person to come back and play
next year? Chez.
Yeah.
Johnny Russell. Oh yeah, interesting story about
Johnny Russell. Who did you say?
Chess. Very small or Tommy or Tommy
Short, because he'd get hundreds of wikis, wouldn't he?
What? Yeah.
What was he like, Jess? That's what I don't know.
What was he like as a blower? It.
Was. Solid.
I learned all my techniques from for Europe Who?
Who did you? Said Ooch.
Johnny. Johnny Russell So in the summer
I spoke to Johnny Russell and I think I'd completely for
forgotten or not even kind of acknowledged that he retired
when he was 31. Yeah, you know, he had loads of
other stuff going on though didn't.
He. Oh yeah.
Because he was physically not capable of playing anymore.
Oh no, I know that. But you know it's.
And don't forget, he absolutely was.
He hated cricket as well. Don't forget that he hated it.
He only hated one one thing more than cricket and that were
batting. I never, honestly, towards the
end of my career when Johnny and I played together, you know, I'd
give up my batting, you know, probably 5-10 years before I
finished playing. And I used to enjoy it before
that. But when my legs wouldn't work
and I were knackered, we used to have arguments that we were
going to bat at 10 or 11. No, no, I'm hurting more than
you. No, I'm hurting more than you.
And he would, but he didn't. You just didn't like it at all.
I think he gave his wicket away on other occasions.
He was a fantastic bowler though, wasn't he?
Christ. Oh yeah, yeah.
Brilliant. Really good.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's an, that's an interesting.
Yeah. I don't know, I think I'd quite
like see chefs play. I guess I can remember watching
him as a kid. But you know, I've spent and
I've spent a lot of time with him.
Yeah. So I like to see him in his
current format. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, that's interesting then. So do we want him back?
We can't have Tommy shop back in his current format.
So I think we're best off having him back as they were.
In the form. Yeah.
Absolutely. So that brings me on to the, the
ideas that we've been having lads.
And I think it's really good that we can just chat this
through as if we're, you know, sat at a bar and hopefully the
listeners can contact us via the the X, the Twitter account or on
Facebook, you know, directly around the ideas we've got for
the next two or three months. So we've been planning this for
probably three or four months. We didn't want to announce it
during the season, but we want to get a project together where
we the House cast hosts debate and decide on the best side that
have played for Law House. Obviously those three have
talked it through. We've got set criteria.
Have you had any change of heart at all Dooch around what we'd
said about the time scales and and picking them?
Picking. What did we say 50?
Years, did we say? Yeah, yeah.
I think that's right. I think that's, I think that's
about right. Yeah, I'm happy with that.
So. The best, the best team, the
best 11 in a in a team in the format of a team.
So you need a wicket keeper, you need bowlers, you need batters.
It's got to be a balanced team for any any player that's played
amateur cricket. Are we having 10 amateurs and
one pro? One pro, I think, yeah. 10
amateurs, 1 pro. It's represented Law House in
the last 50 years. Yeah, yeah.
I mean we've been messaging when you 2 should be work.
We came up with what would be the format for it and we said
mandatory they must have played first team cricket after 1974.
We said the amateur must have played 30 games or more in the
first team and we said the pro must have played over 15 games
because you think of some of the sub.
Pro Yeah. We won't want that.
And then we said, and this is where it's going to get really,
really messy and we can't set criteria for this book.
Do we pick individuals just on talent or on the fact that being
they've obviously got to be talented, but they're also a
team player. And also what they've
contributed to the, to the lower house, 'cause, if you will, the
building of lower housing. And you know where I'm coming
from there. And I'm not after real decisions
around this now because we're going to have to debate this
some length. My point is we've had some great
players play one season, did Jack shit for the club before or
after, but we're probably as good as anyone else that played
for us. So that is something we need to
consider. I'll come back to that one in a
minute. And then the final thing we
decide all that we we discussed between US and we've not
finalised it yet. It's got to be four or five
batters. And then three or four bowlers.
So we need to decide if we're going to have a set criteria for
that. There has to be 1 wicket keeper
who obviously will also bat, one pro and then one genuine all
rounder. So so you have you had, I mean
it's probably a couple of months ago since we decided this.
Have you had any more thoughts between you 2 before we throw it
out to the guests? And I've pretty much, well, I've
got, I've got a team with a few options in, in all the, all the
positions. But I, I was going to say which
I think we could save ourselves a little bit of time when we
actually get down to discussing it and negotiating between
ourselves. I think we're going to have two,
maybe 3 absolute shoo insurance that we don't need to debate and
we can just move on from those. OK.
I I think there's three, but you might, you might say there's
two. And one of mine's still playing.
Our shoeings are still playing. Yeah, absolute shoeing.
Nobody in his position gets anywhere near him, but he's
still playing. And you will not be able to find
anybody in the last 50 years who can lace his boots doing what he
does. Right, OK.
One of the things I've struggled with Jess is the kind of, you
know, I've played for, I don't know, 15 years.
And, you know, there's a group of players that are, have won a
lot of things and are excellent but are still achieving stuff
and still, you know, increasing the number of wickets they've
taken, increasing the number of one runs.
So they're not quite at the top of the list yet, whereas other
people are. So I've, I've, I'm really
struggle with the kind of people that have already done it.
Yeah, relative to the people that are doing it and could
surpass them in the future, but they might, but they might not.
It's it's an interesting question about whether you pick
it on. I need to go back as well.
I need to go back on that last bold statement that that very
bold statement. That can we come back to you
because we're flitting around a lot here.
We're all going to let me come back to you with that bowl
statement and just just try and answer Joe Martins.
I've never heard anything that's ridiculous in my life, Joe.
You play. Yeah, well, we can't.
What you want us to do? Get a.
No, I don't want you to do anything.
I'm just saying the decisions that you've got to make.
Then got what then? Glass balls that those people
looking those crystal. Balls.
The crystal balls, we can't get a crystal ball to see how
they're going to go on. And the other, the other
downside of your point is what about the players that played
before 75? Why can't we include them?
We've got to have cut offs. Yes, agree.
And it's a judgement called Joe. You know we're not.
Oh yeah, of course there's no. Black and white rules.
Some people will be disappointed though, aren't they?
No, that's fine. I don't think they'll be.
I don't think they'll be that disappointed.
I think they'll be up for all. And we're not doing it.
And again, Joe Martin, I'll come back to you in a minute about
how other people feel about what we decide in the end.
So go on, dude. Go back to your bold statement.
Well, the the two absolute showings that that everybody
will will have Jason Blaze, of course Blaze is still playing.
I didn't mean him when I said there's one who's still playing.
I meant one who you might be surprised.
That makes my list of showings. Yeah, when you were saying it, I
mean, the listeners can't see you on the screen like I can.
And I, I I didn't think you meant blessed the way.
No, I didn't. I didn't mean blessed.
I know you didn't felt the way you were, you were your
demeanour and I'm not sure we should go much further on.
No, I don't either, Jess. I knew we're thinking about.
I think we should get the rules out there and I'd like to
encourage supporters, listeners, fans, ex players, current
players to come into the house cast, maybe, you know, on, on on
Twitter and give their views about it, because I, I do feel
it's not going to get. So go back to your point Joe
Martin about what other people think.
The bottom line is we'll debate it till and not always online
and not always live because it could get boring.
So we might need to edit things out and and how we decide what
is what is the final team, But it's tough.
You know, we we will have a vote.
So I'll come on to that. Now what we have decided between
US and this is still flexible. If anyone's got any other views,
there will be 5 people who can contribute to this.
So that's Joe Martin, Joe Beneduccia, myself, Gary and
Gav. So that's Gary Morais and Gus
Shields. So the five of us will pick our
side independently. We will then start the debate
and obviously as Duchess has alluded to, the one or two or
three players that are are are common to all 5.
We've got to have unanimous at the start.
This is a little bit like a crane court.
We will start off with unanimous and then after however many
hours of deliberation, we can then start going to a majority.
And then if we'd still get into a 2 of voting for 1/2 are voting
for another one sat on the fence because there is someone like
those five who does sit on the fence a lot.
Gary he's. Bad for it.
We've got to meet at Laura House and have a fighting cop bar.
I was going to say a jewel of some kind, but you know, that's
quite mediaeval. So please listeners, if you, if
you want to contribute to it, then please do.
We're not accepting any other people to come in and have a
final vote, but we will listen to people's views and their and
their outlook and and not just the views of the, the quality of
the player. Because I think we will debate
as much the how someone warrants getting into the team as much as
the, the standard of their their career or their stats for law
House. So that's one idea.
We've got anything else Joe do before we we move on from that
one? I'm looking forward to it.
I think it'd be a good, good chat.
And I actually think we'll be surprised by how common our
views are. Actually when I've gone through
the, the options, yeah, I think, I think there'll be a lot of
common ground. There'll be a couple that that
that we that we struggle on. I think one of the openers might
be might be up for up for debate.
Yeah. I think that's one of the
biggest issues, I think. I think that because there's a
lot of high calibre, you know, options across different eras
there, yeah. But I think a lot of the others,
I think a lot of the others will be fairly common.
I'm not so sure because I do think, and again, we're not
going to debate players now, I'm just talking about positions,
you know, how do we manipulate an all rounder or a wicket
keeper? You know, a batter, yeah, OK.
A bowler, yeah, OK, you're looking at a wicket keeper.
Do you sacrifice someone who was, you know, maybe a little
bit better than someone else and put them in because of the runs
are going to get again, We're not going to debating now.
We you know, we're going to be ahead of ourselves, but they
are. I'm not so sure, dude.
She's going to be as cut and dried as you think.
OK, we'll see. Yeah, yeah.
We'll see. Fantastic, this is exciting.
And again, Joe Martin, I think maybe if we can do maybe a
couple of episodes where we we drip feed in and it's not about
teasing the audience or be some people might think it is, but if
we could try and plan it and have the final podcast live at
the club. Oh fantastic.
That that could work Well, maybe not with an audience.
With a Curry. With a free Curry from Matt
Stanley. Absolutely.
Here we go. Oh, we should do this before
Christmas. Fantastic.
But I'm not sure we want an audience because, you know, we
don't want any fisticuffs. We'll have to get some bouncers
in because there will be people that are not happy and disagree.
We've already haven't we, between the three of us had
someone who disagrees with the format of it and they're not
even up against cats. Let's see.
So then let's just move on and chat.
We're not waffling on. No, it's only half past.
We're also we're up for any other ideas or topics that we
can talk about which entertain us in the winter nights and also
the the listeners. Dude, do you want to do we want
to talk about the one that we were discussing midweek on a
WhatsApp or leave it around the players names do.
If you want, we were just having a random nonsense chat about
players names because England in the West Indies might be up in
the batting with Phil Salt and Michael Pepper.
So we were, we were trying to come up with like a Law house
themed version of that. We couldn't, we couldn't really
make anything work. There's no, there isn't any.
We couldn't really come up with food items.
The nearest we could get was there's a Law House.
Birds 11. So let let me pick a picture for
yourself. Joe Martin We've sprung this on
Joe. So I'm travelling back on a boat
and I've got a signal but I'm doing nothing for 20 hours.
Joe Beneducci should be working but we're messaging backwards
and forwards. So we come up with the idea of
the bird. Birds, a Bird 11 fellow house.
We thought about beers, we thought about food, but we came
up with a Bird 11. So Joe Martin, I want you to
start to think about players that we've got that have got the
birds, that the names are, you know, literally birds.
So. What's this like?
What up? Chris Swift?
Excellent one. And his dad, Nick.
So he's Nick? Yeah.
Fantastic. Right?
So they can bat. They can.
One can open and one can bat 3. You need to look a little bit
closer to home. I don't think there's a
Beneducci bird. What about the Martin?
Is that a bird? Yeah.
Is it? Yeah, it's a Fisher.
Oh no, it's Kingfisher, isn't it?
Did we have a Kingfisher ever played so?
That's two more. Yeah, two more top 4.
What about? What about?
Buzzard. Do we have any Buzzard?
Holy stuff. Yeah.
Fantastic. Yeah, just that one.
He he just got another one dooch.
Whilst we were talking about Chaffinch Buzzard, what does
came for Blizzard? That's yeah.
Then again, there's two of them. Yeah, two of them.
So that's Buzzard. I mean tenuous in it that's
scratched all that. So that's. 7.
Evan, Dave and Chris Buzzard. Yeah, he's got no kind of.
Doing what about one of his current team mates?
Hawk Joe Hawk Joe Hawk. Correct 1218.
Lovely. Stuff.
We're going to have span eras now, I reckon.
Are we? What about what about if a non
playing selection the the cricket chairman?
Greatest cricket chairman we've ever had.
Club chairman. Sorry, club chairman, not
cricket chairman. Oh, David Wrenn.
Yeah. Yeah, and Andrew Wren played a
bit so he could he could be as well.
If we're struggling for players, I'm sure Judith and Laura Renna
played as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just
like I'm so I'm sure Susan Martin.
Yeah, yeah. Or or Suzanne and Steph Butter.
Wilson, Yeah. They've changed his names,
unfortunately. Yeah.
What about Goose? Dave Walley?
His nickname was Goose. Because of his neck, I'm having
that. And then I.
Think. We need a pro, we need a pro,
won't we? Yeah.
So we could have Andrew MacDonald duck and we Empire so
we can ask Gordon Howley. But you could have Paddy and you
could have the three Howlies as Howlies.
Yeah. The player couldn't you?
Fantastic. And that's it.
So we ain't got any more. So we thought we could maybe if
anybody, I'm Johnny Russell, if he's listening to this, he'll
definitely be able to come up with a few.
But if anybody can come up with another Bird related player for
our house, then get in touch. But we will not accept Gavin
Shields and Matt Stansfield because they're just a couple of
tits. That's fantastic.
Brilliant, brilliant. So that's that took us two or
three hours to go through. We did start thinking of beers
and we had more house and and we had, I think I can't remember
the other one was we had. We went through a few other
ones, more house, Smiths, Bailey's.
You and Chris Cronenberg. Yeah, Johnny Walker.
But we couldn't get anywhere near 10.
So we like the birds. So if anyone's got any other
ones that we can debate then that would be great to get them
along here. There's another bit of a game
I've got in my mind where we we have two teams so we don't we'd
need the five of us on. So it would be who did I put it
put together? I mean, it would be Gary and Gav
and Dooch and Joe Martin guessing how many runs and into
the scores for Law House. And you've got to whoever gets
the closest you, you came to the scores and the lowest score wins
and gets a special prize. But I need to develop that one a
little bit. But I'm just putting it out
there. I like it, Jess.
There is another game that I think would be good, which is I
listen to it on another podcast, but you know, it's fine.
You know, I can share starting elevens where you go around, you
pick a random game, game or whatever from any era.
Well, the ones that we know, you go and then you're in teams
again, could be part of the house cast quiz and you have to
go around and you have to say a player that played on both teams
who played in that game. We had to get it wrong.
Did we not have a go at that one game this year?
Were we trying to guess one from this year?
Yes, yeah, you're right. I think it was a tournament
game. I don't think we were playing a
tournament. I think it was a game against or
it might have been a Burnley game.
I think it might have been a Burnley game with Chippy.
Yeah, there was some. Yeah, it was some real odd names
in it, weren't there? Yeah, no that.
Sounds good that sounds good and it will because we do want to
keep these going and we just don't want need to waffle about
in in stuff that gets everyone on board.
So that will be fantastic if we could if we could get things
kicked off like that, but we promised the the best 11 we
might need to quote something different than the best 11 the
house cast 11. It might be better called if
people want to contribute then feel free.
Anything else that we need to catch up on?
Between the three of us, I've got 2 draws to do.
I'd like both to to be involved. Make sure there's no underhanded
business on these. Anything else you want to
discuss before we go into that? Should probably just shout out
the bonfire shouldn't we? On Saturday the 2nd of November.
Main fundraising event in the year for the club.
There's always bits and bobs of help that the team require, both
on the night and in the week leading up to the event.
Charlie builds the bonfire with his with his team of helpers in
the in the in the lead up to the event.
But Frank's also looking for people to give us a Chuck up on
the night, whether that be stewarding or helping scam
tickets and things like that. So if you can spare a couple of
hours either in the week, in the run up to the event or on the
night itself, then just get in touch with anybody and we'll put
you in touch with the right person to sort that out.
Likely to be building the bonfire the back end of next
week so if you're available for however you know it doesn't
matter how long but if you can lend a hand because.
You can't say what day change do you want in case because we
don't know when this podcast going out, do we?
So that's. No.
So that's the the 30th, 31st of the.
First year. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. Really.
No, it's it. It's really well worth giving
that shape to it. It's always so busy and, and the
way that it's gone in the last 10 years, thanks to the people
you mentioned, Dutch is a credit to them and, and to how much the
club is supported and, and helped.
You know, the money that's raised from there to assist with
the outdoor Nets, assist with the junior cricket, you know,
paying for the professional, getting everything in order is,
is absolutely phenomenal. I think it was just mentioning
us. I'm sure we've mentioned it
before. Were you still around?
I don't think Joe Martin would have been, but dude, she would.
You have been there when we used to have him on the car park.
But yeah, I don't think so. I don't.
Well, I don't. I might have been at the club,
but I don't. I wasn't helping out.
Yeah. We used to and I can't.
I wouldn't even like to think about what year it would be.
I don't. I would.
Adam and Amy have been born. I don't know, but we used to
have the middle of the car park and one year it burnt two of the
telly, one or two of the telephone lines down from the
Telegraph pole being that bigger and bigger.
And it was people just letting off fireworks from back of the
car and dressing rooms. There were rockets and all sorts
flying all over the car park. When you look at how we can
organise, it's now with that, the firework display that goes
on now it's it's good for the community as well.
It keeps people a little bit safer.
And so, yeah, anyone can help, please give us a shout, any of
us, or message Stan and they'll put you in the right direction
of where you can help. OK, so let's move on to the draw
with two to do September and October.
Just give a shout out initially. I hope I haven't missed anyone.
Graham Martin's been in touch and wants a new another number.
So Graham's new #27. So he's now now got a couple of
numbers. I'm just looking through the
list. I don't think there's any new
participants since last time. I know Warren of his keeps
wanting to get in and he keeps messing up I think with his
standing order. But we'll get you in soon.
Was it? So no, that's where we're up to
with it, Joe. So if you don't mind Joe Martin
getting your random generated number system going, the balls
in your bag up to number 177 please.
We're there, Jazz. First prize September for £100
is. #14. Number 1414 Well, they couldn't
be a better winner for a lot of us.
It gives me a lot of pleasure, really, because Matt Sandfield's
always whinging about never winning into so #14 is Adele
Stansfield. You'll never see that.
I don't think it's that long since she want to do.
Let's have a look. Well, it says here May 21,
unless I've not. Maybe it is, yeah.
Yeah, May 21. It does seem to roll on, but
you're right there. I'm sure Matt won't see any of
that and write this. So I was going to get Matt on
because he whinges all the time when we're off that his his
numbers not even in, but there we go.
Second prize for 80 LB Please, Joe. #7. #7 Cheryl Marquis Matt
Marquis's mum Cheryl's in I think since it started fantastic
Contributed to the 100 club or the lowest draw as it is now, so
80 LB goes to Cheryl next one Joe 3070 lbs Third prize. 170 a.
170 That's a long way down, Stu. Oh, cracking.
I nearly said it as well then Dennis Daily.
So the fourth prize for £50. #72.
Yeah #72 Justin Stockdale. Justin's an ex Wiki keeper all.
Right. I think he's won before.
Yeah, he has. Yeah, he won February this year,
February 24th. Justin, his real character, Joy,
he came to watch as I think last year he now lived South of
Birmingham. He went to school with Matt.
Him and Mato were really good friends at school.
They were good stomper. I played first team I think a
few games, a decent bat. So that concludes the September
draw, if we can move on to October 1st.
Prize 100 LB. #49 check. On that 49 Jackson.
Honestly, it's ridiculous. Hey, did he Jack?
Jack won in July 24 and I think he's won previously in 24.
Yeah, and Danny's had a winner as well.
Yeah, and Danny? Jack and Danny Jack and Danny
both had a winner. That's ridiculous.
Well done, Jack.
You can see we're all pleased for your second prize 85.
Number 84. Number 84 is Henry Cotton.
Oh, fantastic Henry stuff. Excellent stuff.
Henry's only recently joined, his dad at the AGM put him in
forward so it is his first win. I think everyone knows Henry's.
Charlie's lad played in the first team regular for the last
few years. He had joined in June 24th.
So well done Henry £80 that I'll send to your dad and he can
decide what's my. Favourite cricketers?
Jazz. Really.
Yep, really. I really enjoy watching him play
cricket. It's good.
Right, good third price 7070 LB please Joe.
Number 56. 56 is our retired bank manager.
Anyone know him? I don't.
Know is it Clive? Yes, Clive Spencer won in March
24. Hopefully stuff going back to
fiddling these a little bit. There's too many winning who've
won who've won previously like I mean Dutch has not won for a
long time. I don't think I've won for for a
while. So well done Clyde 50 LB coming
your way the last price. No, sorry, 70 LB going your way
Clyde. And the last prize for £50 and
the October draw is? #99.
My favourite apple. I scream that.
Is it? Well, what's chances did?
You get any sprinkles or anything on it?
Yeah, I would eat the flake first.
No, no. Fair enough.
Sorry, Jess. Eliza Cotton.
No where, where, where? It's ridiculous.
It's one of those things in it. Charlie upgraded his standing
order so he could get because Louise is already in an advisor
and Henry so they're in. So there's the the winners for
September, October. They will be on social media
soon and I will contact everyone to get them paid out as soon as
possible. So thanks everyone for
contributing to the draw. Anyone listening wants to join
in please message would have been quite a few messages of
getting new members over the last 6 to 12 months.
It's you know it's all for a good cause and it's a it's a
good bit of bounce for us to draw so so that's good.
So Joe Martin I think we've we've done nearly probably done
50 minutes. That's a real effort can get out
in one go. I don't think it needs any
editing job. If you can you can get it out
anything. Joe Martin Before we cut this
episode, I. Don't think so.
Lovely to be back. Yeah, it is.
It's great. It's great.
I was listening to someone around a boat for hours, as I
keep telling you, and I was listening to some of the old
podcast. If you've, if you've got a spare
off hour or you're just wandering around or even up golf
course dude, when you're messing around, just put some old
podcasts on. I cannot remember some of the
things that were done and some of the things that were said.
And I know we really got away with it, but.
I guess I guess says now that first Christmas podcast is one
of the best things he's ever listened to.
Organised chaos that weren't it. Not organised.
Ridiculous. Yeah, it was that are we are.
We're not doing all of them this Christmas, so we don't.
No, I don't think so. I think it was AI think it was
one of those where it was the first lockdown, wasn't it, or
the Christmas lockdown and we've just been, we've just been shut
down again. I remember.
I remember tasking your job with right, I'm not going to do
anything on this. I just want to listen and laugh
and have a few times. But can you manage it?
And you didn't say anything to the 1st 20 minutes.
Oh, I couldn't. I didn't have it.
I didn't have an opportunity to. I'd just get, you know, I just
kept going saying yeah, welcome. And then someone would come in
with, you know, something else. Nikki was there for the 1st 20
minutes before he had to. Leave to go to three people on
his screen. No, No.
Oh yeah, no. It's gone again, Nikki.
Nikki, you're gone again. Nikki, what do I have to do to
see everybody on my screen? It made it worse I think that
you could see everyone because when you people thought that
they couldn't hear you could be when and then when she has
appeared on it and was was it standard mentioned about him
welding because of those glasses he had on.
You've never seen glasses made by Everest.
Yeah, absolute quality. I'm going to go back and listen
to that later. Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, but. We won't be having one this
Christmas. So Dutch, final words from you,
please Paul, before we move on. You've.
Just got us a couple of opponents in the lower house.
Birds 11. Oh, go on.
Kez. Oh yeah, Kez.
Yeah, and. What about your mate who used to
open batting for Nelson Parrots? Gareth?
Yeah, yeah. Parrots.
Yeah. Kez Who's?
Kez who? Kez.
Yeah, yeah. Kez, it's Roscoe.
It's a Roscoe. Bird.
Kez, the famous kestrel of of the from the film Kez.
Oh, I've never seen it. It's a classic.
Yeah, is it who? Who filmed?
Who filmed it? Who filmed it?
Who was the director? No.
Idea. No, it's famous.
He's like Ken Larch or someone, I don't know, something like
that. Can we check please?
I've never seen it. Actually, I suggest you watch
it. It's a classic, get off that.
Was it like your school days, jazz or it?
Was actually, yeah, you know, like TT with Bobby Charlton.
Well, I've never seen it. We'll get watching it.
Cannot find it dude. He.
Must can launch you, right Joe I.
Thought he was. A geek.
So you knew directed it, but you didn't know it was you didn't
know it was a bird in it called Kez.
I know, I just thought that was the main character.
I thought it was about a boy called Kez that went to school
and was bullied. Is that not what happens?
No, not really. Oh, fair enough.
Well, you know, we can we can discuss this next time of.
Course we can't, of course. We can do watch along.
Yeah, yeah, we could watch it and comment on it as it's going
along. I'm very excited for our all
time elevens. We're at a list tomorrow.
When we're doing it, I might be doing that.
Oh, we should do it soon, Jess. I'll.
Send out a message. I think all five of us have got
to be online a debate, even if we do it in sections, you know,
just it's here and. The openers pick the openers and
the three and four. That's a good.
Idea. I mean, why don't is it worse?
And we probably don't need to the the listeners to listen to
this, but it doesn't really matter.
But we probably set up a WhatsApp group and just put your
team on and then let other people think about it.
We'll have a dialling note. Do you think you're better off
just disclosing it when we're all on?
I think. This is.
I think there's a surprise element to which.
I don't like that idea. I like, I like doing you, doing
your research, getting you, getting your team together and
then coming and presenting. Yeah, so you actually.
So we go around the room, right back to #1 for me is whoever
then, right? Joe Martin, your number one
batter, so and so, and then they go around and then #2 right?
OK. Yeah.
No, that sounds good. And then for the last one, did
you say that we're going to pick our best team Well?
We have to get to the best 11. Yeah.
Yeah.
We have to reach consensus. That's what he's saying.
Yes, yeah, we went through the jury system earlier.
Yeah. But do on the on the recordings
these this is interesting. We don't need to do this.
I was just going to ask we're going to oh, well, I'm going to
carry on anyway. I was going to ask Jess, do we
need to, so when we talk about the different positions, do we
need to discuss that? That's a different podcast.
Very much so. Lovely stuff.
Yeah. Excellent.
I enjoyed that. My eyes are watering.
That's, you know, that can happen.
Yeah. Lovely.
And obviously any players that get a majority, sorry, are
unanimous, are straight in and we'll have a sheet there
straight in. And then we have to decide how
long we wait before we accept a four to one.
Yeah, and 3:00 to 2:00 and then it's in the car park.
And I'm ready. I can win milk.
All right, brilliant. There's nothing else.
Thanks everyone. Thank you too.
It's really good of you to come on on this dark.
It's not cold, but it's a dark October night.
It's a great way to spend an hour.
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